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A duo, U-Know Yunho and Max Changmin, who started as five in 2003 and are called Tohoshinki in Japan, where they are enormous. They have been two since 2011. Start with "Mirotic" and enjoy the ride.
- Members
- 2
- Debut
- 2003 (23 years)
- Generation
- 1st gen (until 2003)
- Label
- SM
Start with: Mirotic
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Achievements
- Mirotic (2008) won Album of the Year at the Golden Disk Awards; the title track took nine music show number-one trophies
- First Korean group to perform at the Kōhaku Uta Gassen, appearing three times from 2008 to 2011
- First Korean group to headline a concert at the Tokyo Dome (2009)
- 12 number-one singles on the Oricon, the most of any foreign artist in Japan; over 12.1 million albums sold
- Begin Again Tour (2017 to 2018) sold over a million tickets, the highest-attended tour by a foreign act in Japan
Timeline
- 2003Debut on December 26 as a five-member group with "Hug"
- 2005Second Korean album Rising Sun becomes their first breakthrough album
- 2008First Oricon number one with "Purple Line"; fourth Korean album Mirotic released in September
- 2009Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu seek to leave SM Entertainment; Tokyo Dome concerts with The Secret Code Tour
- 2010Japanese activities suspended in April as the three form JYJ; Yunho and Changmin take a hiatus
- 2011Return as a duo with the album Keep Your Head Down in January
- 2013Time Tour is the first dome tour of five domes by a K-pop artist, with 850,000 attendees
- 2015Yunho enlists in July and Changmin in November; both discharged in 2017
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